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Example sentences for "obscurer"

Lexicographically close words:
obscuration; obscurations; obscure; obscured; obscurely; obscures; obscurest; obscuring; obscurities; obscurity
  1. Perhaps even the transition from species to species does still take place in some of the obscurer fields of creation, or under extraordinary casualties, though science professes to have no such facts on record.

  2. For those diminutive particles are not atomical or meerly indivisible, but consist of dimensions sufficient for their operations, though in obscurer effects.

  3. Lady--was as civil and silly as the generality of Lady Blanks are: and feeling very much bored, I soon retired to an obscurer corner of the room.

  4. A statesman so eminent, of opinions so well known, of public services so incontestable, might well be spared the personal trouble that falls upon obscurer candidates.

  5. Levy; and at the head of another procession that emerged from the obscurer lanes of the town, walked, with grave majesty, the surviving Yellow candidate.

  6. In it are comprised many popular fictions, on the obscurer parts of which a quite insufficient light is thrown by researches among the manners and mythologies of old European heathenism.

  7. So little even in Robertson's day did English literature, in its obscurer sources, enter into the pursuits of our greatest writers.

  8. In his mania for acquirements that should be entirely useless he had gained some skill in illumination, or limning as he preferred to call it, always choosing the obscurer word as the obscurer arts.

  9. This is one of the obscurer and less noticed incidents, but perhaps it contains more valuable teaching than appears at first sight.

  10. No; but meekly betake Himself to yet obscurer fields of service, and send out the Twelve to prepare His way, as if He thought that they might have success where He would fail.

  11. Easton threw down the copy of the Obscurer and scrambled hastily to his feet.

  12. It means that if the Editor of the Obscurer put that in his paper as an argument against Socialism, either he is of feeble intellect himself or else he thinks that the majority of his readers are.

  13. Crass had not yet had an opportunity of producing the Obscurer cutting, and he made this remark in the hope of turning the conversation into a channel that would enable him to do so.

  14. Crass, remembering the cutting from the Obscurer that he had in his pocket, was secretly very pleased at the turn the conversation was taking.

  15. The cutting from the Obscurer which he had in his pocket would take a bit of answering!

  16. The Obscurer was a Tory paper and Harlow was a member of the local Liberal club.

  17. There were no 'political' arguments that day at dinner-time, to the disappointment of Crass, who was still waiting for an opportunity to produce the Obscurer cutting.

  18. It's one thing to say it and another to prove it,' sneered Crass, who was anxious for an opportunity to produce the long-deferred Obscurer cutting.

  19. Crass slowly drew the Obscurer cutting from his waistcoat pocket, but after a moment's thought he replaced it, deciding to defer its production till a more suitable occasion.

  20. I can work it all right in the Ananias and the Chloroform, and of course you'll see that the Obscurer backs us up.

  21. The obscurer laws of nature were discovered by means of it, but the more obvious ones must have been understood and assented to as general truths before it was ever heard of.

  22. While the apartments of state and the chamber of his bride were adorned with a profuse luxury and cost, to his own private rooms he transported precisely the same furniture which had been familiar to him in his obscurer life.

  23. In the obscurer streets I passed through, the mob were already forming.

  24. On this ground, and perhaps to a still greater extent on obscurer grounds that can not be discussed here, there are these concomitant variations as between the different traits of human nature.

  25. The spread of the discipline of the natural sciences, largely incident to the mechanical industry, counts in the same direction; and obscurer factors in modern culture may have had their share.

  26. In cursory speech, or in such reading as imitates it, even the best scholars utter many letters with quicker and obscurer sounds than ought ever to be given them in solemn discourse.

  27. When an obscurer term needs to be explained by one that is clearer.

  28. I must follow Talleyrand into the obscurer meeting-place of the First Estate.

  29. It was not his business to search into its causes, which belonged to the obscurer regions of psychology.

  30. Their conclusions were challenged by younger and obscurer men, and a controversy began which has not ceased to cause the widest diversion among men.

  31. It is true that her absence was not prolonged, and that she had obscurer rivals.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "obscurer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.